As a single, possibly outlying data point, I would submit my own experience.
I have found the transition not very bothersome, exactly because I have been
exposed to both (on my smartphone on the one hand and via my mouse on the
other).
The "hump" was to stop thinking of my computers as computers and start
thinking of them as smartphones.
(Small point of order: the change in scrolling happened in "Lion" OSX 10.7.
Tiger was 10.4.)
Cheers.
Fil, the mac user. ;-)
On 10 August 2011 07:20, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For my net column on core77.com, I writing about Apple's recent change in
> the user model for scrolling (in their release of the "Tiger" OS).
>
> The choice of scrolling user model is this: moving the scroll bar can
> either
> move the text or the window. If it moves the text, one scrolls up to move
> the text up. If it moves the window, one scrolls down to move the text up.
> The original model for Apple's trackpads was that two-finger movements of
> the fingers down mover the window down: they have just changed this so that
> now it is the text that moves down. My suspicion is that the scrollbar will
> disappear, or perhaps remain primarily as a visual indicator of where one
> is
> in a long text.
>
> The reason for the change is, presumably, consistency, now
> that gestures are becoming the standard way of moving text around on
> multi-touch screens, and multi-touch will become standard on all systems in
> the next few years, either through touch screens or touchpads (or
> more likely, both).
>
> ===
> Who remembers the early fights about this model? Can anyone remind me of
> how
> we ever decided upon the moving window model rather than the moving text
> one? The transition will cause much confusion, I am certain, and I want to
> get the original rationale right. In my opinion there is no correct answer
> to the choice: it all depends upon one's mental model. But now, the' mental
> model for Apple users will have to switch to that of moving text not
> windows. Microsoft is now releasing a touch/gesture mouse: what model will
> they adopt? (see Microsoft TouchMouse http://bit.ly/ownFlf).
>
> (The earliest published paper i can find is in 1983, but as late as 1995
> the
> argument was still going on. Does anyone remember the way we ended up with
> the current model?)
>
> Thanks
>
> Don
> [log in to unmask] www.jnd.org
> http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/
>
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